I am always delighted to see you whenever you can come, and Friday will
do perfectly well for me. But do not feel bound to come if it snow, etc.
In other respects I have small compunction, for I think it must do you
good to go out, even to such a desert as this.
I have not got Phidippus into any presentible shape: and indeed have not
meddled with him lately: as the spirit of light dialogue evaporated from
me under an influenza, and I have not courted it back yet. Luckily I and
the world can very well afford to wait for its return. I began
Thucydides two days ago! and read (after your example) a very little
every day, _i.e._ have done so for two days. Your Sanscrit sentences are
very fine. It is good for you to go on with that. We hear Mr. Nottidge
{213} is dying: who can be sorry for him!
Yours,